Research

The Australian Native Bee Research Centre (ANBRC), hosting Aussie Bee website, is a privately-funded organisation based in the lower Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, New South Wales.

Aussie Bee website raises public awareness of our vital native bee species and helps ensure the bees’ survival in Australia. It provides a wealth of free information, photographs and videos on Australia’s 1,700 native bee species, based on the research of the ANBRC and other specialists. We gratefully acknowledge the many superb photographs and videos contributed to Aussie Bee website by skilled photographers, credited on the various pages. Established in 1997, Aussie Bee was Australia’s first website on Australian native bees and has now been supporting our native bees for over 20 years.

Visit the website here: https://www.aussiebee.com.au/anbrc.html

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https://www.sydneystinglessbees.com.au/

We have about 1,700 described native bee species in Australia (and many remain undescribed), found in all terrestrial habitats and displaying a wide array of social behaviours, although most are solitary.

Apparently we have the most distinctive continental bee fauna in the world and Australia is the only continent where most bees are dependent on a single family of plants – the Myrtaceae (which does give them a pretty big choice!) including theEucalyptus, Leptospermum, Melaleuca and Callistemon genera. As well as bees being dependent on flowering plants for nectar and pollen, flowering plants rely on bees (and other animals) to provide pollination.

The only non-indigenous bees in Australia are the honeybee Apis mellifera and the bumblebee Bombus terrestris.

So where do we find out about our native bees? Good question!

Visit the website: https://www.aabr.org.au/australian-native-bees/